Leadership in TVET for the 21st century: challenges, roles and characteristics

Ahmad, Hadijah and Ibrahim, Badaruddin (2015) Leadership in TVET for the 21st century: challenges, roles and characteristics. In: Istanbul University World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 28-30 May 2015, Istanbul, Turki.

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Abstract

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) was often judge as a
place for those who only fated to do menial and dirty jobs resulted from their
poor academic achievement. The so judgmental assumption has been long
mingling in the orthodox view of education landscape and it made the heart
of those who: run it, in it, feel it, felt so crush and stymied. TVET was often
disregard as a significant player in academic orientation and those statement has
been slowly discarded since many are aware that TVET are the best providers of
knowledgeable and skilled workers in the 21st century. The curvy path of TVET
for sailing in this 21st century challenges were geared by more than ‘will’ and
‘gut’ of a leaders to plot and positioned TVET in it class. This primary research
attempted to explore the challenges, roles and leadership characteristics from
the single view perception of a higher ranking leader in TVET institution. The
finding of this study suggested besides of having two ears, arms and feet, leader
have to ensure their followers are not out of reach by portray what best describe
as ‘necessary’. Specifically, the findings was presented in two set formats;
quotations of participant opinion in qualitative form and tabular format for
quantitative forms